Walter Chambers is a member of International Socialist Alternative. The war in Ukraine has turned into a war of brutal attrition. Only workers’ solidarity can end it. The Kremlin was hoping for a double celebration on May 9: to mark the Soviet Union’s victory in WW2, and the jubilant return of troops after a short […]
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Li Yong is a contributor to chinaworker.info. Lockdown in Shanghai These interviews were conducted on April 11 when Shanghai had been in lockdown for almost two weeks. Since then the city of 28 million people has endured a further four weeks of full-scale lockdown with no end in sight. The current outbreak of the Omicron […]
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Tom Crean is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Article after article in the mainstream corporate media in recent weeks has stated that the war in Ukraine has accelerated a radical realignment in the world economy that is termed “deglobalization.” Martin Wolf, the chief economics editor of the Financial Times stated recently that […]
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No to War! Build an Anti-War Movement Revolutionary Youth Ontario: Kick out Ford Workers Need a Real Pay Raise Polarization Comes to Canada Quality Childcare Needed … and much more from Canada and abroad! For printed copies, please send us an e-mail to [email protected] Please consider making a donation to help with our costs and […]
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Adam N. Lee is a contributor to chinaworker.info. A video of a chained-up mother of eight children was posted on Douyin (China’s TikTok) in late January — within days it was viewed over 3 billion times drawing ten times more online traffic than the Beijing Winter Olympics. The short video posted on 28 January, and […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. The sharp escalation of conflict with Russia is inseparable from the US-China conflict. “One who is not acquainted with the designs of his neighbours should not enter into alliances with them.” These are the words of legendary military strategist Sun Tzu more than 2,000 years ago. Xi Jinping […]
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Chinese Regime on Horns of a Dilemma Evergrande, the Chinese property company, is missing one payment deadline after another. If it collapses the consequences could be huge for China’s economy, its authoritarian regime and for global capitalism. ISA talks to Vincent Kolo of chinaworker.info about what could happen. ISA: The name Evergrande has suddenly entered […]
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What’s behind the CCP’s serial crackdowns and talk of “common prosperity”? China’s dictator Xi Jinping has launched no fewer than 14 different crackdowns this year. There is a crackdown on LGBTQ people and a ban on “sissy boy” pop stars and celebrities in the media. LGBTQ online groups and websites are banned and some universities […]
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Per-Åke Westerlund is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Reply to Pro-Authoritarian ‘Lefts’ In the second of our two-part article on Chinese imperialism, we wrote: “The huge network of concentration camps, disappearances, torture, rape and more in Xinjiang, directed against the Uighur and mostly Muslim population, are not made up, but are the harsh […]
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“All roads lead to 2022” noted Nikkei’s seasoned China watcher Katsuji Nakazawa, referring to the so-called Communist Party’s (CCP) twice-in-a-decade congress in October next year. It is there Xi Jinping plans to finalise his coronation as lifetime ruler of China. The congress is a ritual, it’s not a political gathering for debates and democratic votes. […]
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